Exclusive economic zone of Vietnam

[1][2] Excluding all disputed waters, Vietnam has an undisputed exclusive economic zone of 417,663 km2 (161,261 sq mi).

The total land area, including inland bodies of water, of Vietnam is 331,212 km2 (127,882 sq mi).

According to former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, "China's nine-dash line territorial claim over the entire South China Sea is against international laws, particularly the United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS)".

The incident left seventeen Vietnamese injured and damaged both China's and Vietnam's ships.

[citation needed] The Geneva Accords of 1954,[8] which ended the First Indochina War, gave South Vietnam control of the Vietnamese territories south of the 17th Parallel, which included the islands in the Paracels and Spratlys, at least according to Vietnam interpretations.

This map continues to be used in news media, but Vietnam does not in fact claim EEZ to the blue line, which is an extrapolation based on projection from the Paracel Islands, which Vietnam avoided in its 2009 submissions to CLCS. The more accurate illustration of Vietnamese claims can be found in the image that is attached at the beginning of this article.